The quandry is where were all the young voters yesterday?

You know this.  What was important to the young voter in 2006 and 2008?

Give up?

Voting for a President that ended the wars and didn't believe in the draft.  And.  A President that would support higher education.

Guess what?

President Obama achieved all that in his first term.

Hello?

The young voter is in no hurry or is not disgruntled.  They are taken care of and have their 'American Path' clear in front of them.  They need to feel a stronger commitment to vote every two years to continue their contentment.  Sort of a way to say, "Thank you, President Obama."

Placing Worker Safety at the top of any Wall Street agenda is nearly impossible.

MSHA News Release: [11/03/2010]
Contact Name: Amy Louviere
Phone Number: (202) 693-9423
Release Number: 10-1533-NAT

MSHA asks for preliminary injunction against Freedom Energy Mining Co.

Action against Massey-owned mine never before initiated in agency’s history

ARLINGTON, Va. — In an unprecedented legal move, the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today filed with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky a motion for preliminary injunction against Freedom Energy Mining Co.'s Mine No. 1. Located in Pike County, Ky., Freedom's Mine No. 1 is owned by Massey Energy Co.

Section 108(a)(2) of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 provides for injunctive relief against noncompliant mine operators who habitually violate health and safety standards. In this particular case, Section 108(a)(2) calls for an injunction because Freedom Energy is engaged in a pattern of violation of the mandatory health and safety standards of the Mine Act, which constitutes a continuous hazard to the health and safety of the miners at Mine No. 1.

"Freedom Energy has demonstrated time and again that it cannot be trusted to follow basic safety rules when an MSHA inspector is not at the mine," said Joseph A. Main, assistant secretary of labor for
mine safety and health. "If the court does not step in, someone may be seriously injured or die."
"Although this is the first time the department has utilized this legal remedy, it will not be the last," said Solicitor of Labor M. Patricia Smith. "The solicitor's office will work closely with MSHA to ensure that we use every tool possible to keep miners safe."

According to the brief MSHA filed, Freedom Energy is engaged in a pattern of failing to examine and maintain critical areas of its mining operations as evidenced by the quantity and gravity of violations in four critical spheres of safety: failure to clear the mine of excessive accumulations of coal dust; failure to protect the roof, face and ribs from falls and maintain an effective roof control plan; failure to test and maintain electrical equipment in a safe working condition so as to protect against fire or explosion; and failure to effectively ventilate the mine of noxious and explosive gases.

Freedom Energy Mine No. 1 lies in a particularly dangerous coal seam that liberates massive amounts of methane — approximately 1.8 million cubic feet every 24 hours — and is prone to roof falls. In the past two years, seven miners have been injured at this operation as a result of falling roof. Moreover, since Aug. 11, 2010, six major roof falls have occurred in the mine.

During the eight regular inspections conducted between July 2008 and June 2010, MSHA issued 1,952 citations and 81 orders (including 53 (d)(2) orders this year) to Freedom Energy for violating critical safety standards including improper ventilation, failure to support the roof, failure to clean up combustible materials, failure to maintain electrical equipment and failure to conduct the necessary examination of work areas.

On numerous occasions, MSHA district office officials have attempted to resolve serious safety issues at Freedom Energy, including meetings with upper mine management over recurring roof problems, ventilation and dust control issues, accumulations, electrical equipment maintenance and inadequate examinations. The inspections, citations and meetings with mine management have not resulted in changes in behavior. As such, MSHA is compelled to use its statutory authority to ask the federal court to temporarily shut down the mine until the safety issues are addressed.

If the U.S. district court in Kentucky grants MSHA's motion as proposed for a preliminary injunction, Freedom Energy will be required to close its mine temporarily and take specific actions before it can re-open. Freedom must correct all hazardous conditions in its mine and establish a health and safety management program for approval by MSHA before resuming production. Under its safety and health management program it must, among other things, establish an effective training and communications program; ensure that high-level mine officials conduct additional examinations; take additional air readings in critical areas; withdraw all miners when violations are found and pay miners who are idled by such withdrawals.

What is really KNOWN about the majority of newly elected Republicans of the Tea Party?

I am worried about what is NOT known about the new majority of Republicans coming to the US House.

Christine O'Donnell was backed by the very same people that are backing the Tea Party 'elect' Congressmen.  If they are as poorly qualified as she was, then what will occur in the House under Mr. Boner, sorry Boehner?

I think there is a lot to be known about these new Congressmen before they can be reliably counted on to do the people's business. 

Seriously.  The majority of Republicans taking seats this year are Tea Party candidates.  I believe there is going to be a very divided Congress and there won't be much resolved with Mr. Boner at the lead.

I think Nancy Pelosi and the current Congress has to address the needs of the nation and the incoming Congress has a lot to prove before they can be trusted with the future of our children.  There were too many House seats to cover every contest.  I am confident we have a group of newly elected Tea Party candidates that are sincerely not qualified to lead.

Brenanke throws power behind the Republicans with a purchase of $600 BILLION in Treasury Bonds. Hello?

Don't even try to tell me the Plutocracy isn't behind the outcome of the 2010 Election and is now reaching for 2012.

Don't even try !

Fed Will Buy $600 Billion in Debt, Hoping to Spur Growth  (click title to entry - thank you)

I want my country back from the Plutocratic Republicans.  They have willingly plotted against President Obama and a majority Democratic congress. 

It is TOO  OBVIOUS.

...The Fed said it would buy an additional $600 billion in long-term Treasury securities by the end of June 2011, somewhat more than the $300 billion to $500 billion that many in the markets had expected....

The point in this election that is being completely ignored ARE FOUND in the facts surrounding its dynamics.

The Robert's Court betrayed the electorate and supplied large platforms for Rovian dynamics.

The FACTS are clear.  President Obama has DELIVERED on 70% of his campaign promises and his policies are CORRECT and WORKING.




Why was THAT message carried on only ONE cable station in the USA and not making headlines across the country?

Because the 'Capitalism' that has this country by the throat still does.

President Obama has delivered on 70% of his campaign promises and his policies are working.

There is nothing complicated to understand, but, yesterday's reality is that the country believes they have been abandoned by the Democratic party and the leaders of the House and Senate are falsely honest and working for the country's best interest and outcome.

WHY?

A protest vote against anything legislated in the last two years exposing the fact the Republican policies are dangerous, reckless and work to disenfranchise the American Middle Class was never necessary, but, it occurred anyway.

The Democrats need to pass a separate bill to promote the Puiblic Option. The Health Care Bill is working to lower costs.

There was not a landside victory by anyone yesterday.  The liberal Democrats are sill out there and in large number.  The Democrats need to stop seeking to work with Republicans.  They need to pass a Public Option, especially considering the Wall Street Health Insurance companies are abandoning children with preexisting conditions.

Beaware, Jeb Bush will become emboldened by the vote yesterday and will seek to try to deceive the nation to achieve a position in the family dynasty in 2012.  Obama may have to run against a Bush and should be aware of that.  The Democrats need to continue to move the nation forward in a leftward trend.  Wall Street is in play and that is the issue, not  Democratic failure.  The Obama/Pelosi/Reid administration has policies that are working including economic strategies.  We have seen unemployment 'stabilize' with an increase in the private sector employment.  The reason the unemployment stabilized was because the State and Local governments have shrunk and put employees on unemployment.  As the States and Locals were downsizing to shrinking budgets post 2008 collapse (Two years residual effect is not unusal considering many State legislatures are only in their first year of Stimulus) the private sector has been expanding on their own steam without the benefit of bank lending.  That is why the unemployment rate is steady and not less.  The economy is still reacting to the 2008 collapse and hasn't fully re-organized into local strength of economic expansion.  As the 2009 economic expansion continues the State and Local governments will again increase and the unemployment rates will diminish.  The Small Business USA economy is expanding due to government help.

The DNC must carry that REALITY to the people through the next two years.  Otherwise, the electorate will become confused as to whom is sincerely responsible for a rebounding USA economy.  The Obama policies are working.  We need a separate bill for a Public Option to provide good competition in some areas of health care.

NEW YORK (AP) — Health insurer Aetna Inc. said Wednesday its third-quarter net income jumped 53 percent on lower benefits and expenses.

The Hartford, Conn. company said a series of cost management moves and lower use of health care services gave profit a boost during the quarter. The medical benefit ratio, which measures the percentage of premiums spent on medical costs, fell to 81.8 percent from 85.6 percent.

Last year, Aetna struggled with costs that rose faster than it expected when it set prices, due in part to the slumping economy. That caused it to reprice a big portion of its commercial insurance. Health insurance is the company's main product, but it also sells dental, group life and disability coverage.

During the quarter, the insurer earned $497.6 million, or $1.19 per share, in the three months that ended Sept. 30. That's up from the $326.2 million, or 73 cents per share, in the same period last year. Revenue fell 2 percent to $8.54 billion from $8.72 billion, mainly on a decline in membership....

Aetna 3Q profit jumps 53 percent on lower costs  (click title to entry - thank you)

(AP) – 4 hours ago

Time to pass Middle Class tax cuts. Back to work, Nancy.

4 Billion US spent on 2010 elections. The Plutocrats won seats.

OVERBY: Four billion dollars. (click title to entry - thank you)

INSKEEP: Four billion dollars spent in this campaign?

OVERBY: Probably, or close to it.

INSKEEP: There's so many different kinds of spending here. Lets just go through some of the different ways that people spend money on elections. One is just the campaign contributions. Youre a congressmen, you ask for a contribution, you get it, it's under certain limits, you can spend it to re-elect yourself. How has that spending changed this year?

OVERBY: It is up 80 percent just from two years ago. Congressional races in 2008 compared to congressional races in 2010 is an 80 percent jump.

INSKEEP: Eighty percent increase, even though the limits on contributions haven't really changed that much, right?


The USA Democracy is FOR SALE and all the politicians are 'contrite' to recognize it !!!  It has gotten to be hideous in this country.  It isn't about the people and what they need, but, simply how does Wall Street harness the USA Treasury.

...A recent report states that the money (click here) spent on this election by candidates, political parties and other interest groups will break the previous record for a midterm vote by around $1 billion. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, total spending could reach as much as $4 billion this year, for a non-presidential, mid-term election. Is it just me, or is that an obscene amount of money, $4 billion dollars!?!? Keeping things in perspective, comparatively, the Obama administration recently pledged $4 billion dollars (over the next three years) to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.(1) This sum will go towards saving lives in the developing world and is allocated over a period longer than the time until the next midterm election....

Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats were demonized by Murdoch and the House shows it.

"...It is the beginning of the next round...."

The West Coast polls will be closing soon. There is only one CLEAR majority in the House and Senate.

If Palin is the spokersperson for the Tea Party it is very, very clear they are not simply a 'Caucus' of Republicans.  Their methodologies are very different.  The Republicans and Tea Party are both ideologues.  Their goals are completely different.  Whomever the Republicans believe is the leader of the House will never be able to deliver. 

There is still only one clear majority and those people are Democrats.

Palin should run for President  Absolutely.

The biggest hypocrits are Murdoch's Media Circus.  They played the Tea Party for fools.  The entire day they have been stating the House will be taken back by Republicans.  Really?  They aren't all Repuiblicans, but, it is interesting Murdoch's service has handed them over thouigh.

November 02, 2010 4:36 PM

ABC News' Mary Bruce reports:

Sarah Palin warned the GOP establishment (click title to entry - thank you) today that conservative candidates, if elected,  are not being sent to Washington to work with Democrats. “The GOP has to understand, that machine has to understand, we are not sending Republicans, common sense conservatives, to D.C. to sing kumbaya with Obama, we’re sending them to stop Obama!” the former Alaska governor told Laura Ingraham this afternoon.

“Anyone in the GOP who thinks that they can cut a little bill here or there with Obama or Pelosi to maybe raise taxes… they are going to find themselves without a job in 2012. We’ve got to remind these folks in the next couple of years, we put you in, we can take you out,” Palin said on Ingraham’s radio show.

Palin was adamant that Republican victories in the midterms will not represent a mandate for bipartisanship. “No, the left blew it. Barack Obama blew it. And we’re going to find out tonight, how badly he blew it. It’s not a time to compromise our principles and start kowtowing to that leftist extremist agenda that was thrown down our throat the last two years. No, now is the time finally for common sense conservatives to start implementing the solutions that will make sense,” she said....



The "Bob Dutko Show" was doing nothing but stating Christians have an obligation to vote for Republicans.  Not Tea Party people, but, Republicans.  Why?  Because they reflected all the 'correct' social values that can be converted into legislation.  He was telling everyone who to vote for if they were Christians.  It was amazing to listen to, especially the homophobic ranting.

New Zealand realigns with the USA, Canada and Britain on Afghanistan.

The white paper recommends that New Zealand's armed forces be reconfigured to make a more effective contribution to American-led military operations in world trouble spots. Photo / Patrick Gower

...The big question is whether Clinton will restore joint military exercises - axed by Washington after New Zealand's adoption of its anti-nuclear policy in the 1980s.

There are indications that the Wellington Declaration marking Clinton's two-day stopover will not contain any such official assurances that normal business has resumed.

Even so, Clinton will find it hard to ignore the white paper's sentiment.

It is the clearest and strongest statement of the Government's intention to realign foreign and defence policies more closely to traditional allies such as the United States, Britain and Canada....

...The Army will get more front-line soldiers. The number of SAS troops will be boosted. The Anzac frigates will be upgraded.

All this is about "credible combat capacity" so - as Defence Minister Wayne Mapp puts it - New Zealand can contribute "meaningfully" in regional matters and well away from our immediate sphere of interest....

Interesting election year, isn't it?

There will a lot to talk about tomorrow morning.  Voters are still polling in the Midwest and on the West  Coast so commenting isn't appropriate for me.

"Morning Papers" - Its Origins

The Rooster
"Okeydoke"

I believe in a two party system no different than anyone else, but, ...

...that doesn't mean it is amateur night at the bijou.

The 'extremist' environment we find ourselves is set in somewhat of a hysteria, along with a disappointment in the Democrats that they haven't delivered 'the perfect world,' yet.

To invest a valuable vote in a party that is completely unproven at the local and state levels of government is absolutely and obviously irresponsible. 

Vote, but, PLEASE vote wisely.

GOOD NIGHT, MOON.

If a supporter turns up mysteriously at the end of the race, rather than being involved from the beginning they sincerely should not be trusted without knowing what they are all about, besides LIES.

...The flier has Binsky (click title to entry - thank you) and other Libertarians suspecting that Democrats are behind the mail piece as a ploy to drive conservatives away from voting for the Republican in the race, Matt Carle. Democrats, however, say they don't know anything about it....


If lies are the only way to defeat a candidate, it can't be worth it for anyone in the electorate and it automatically raises concerns of the integrity of those that have tried to cast doubt by lying.  I guess the name 'Tea Party' is like a 'code' for The Pied Piper, when nothing but fantasy will do.

Carly Fiorina meeting with Tea Partiers in Marin -- no press allowed

I can understand why Ms. Fiorina would not want the press in the room.  But, come to think about it, Tea Party Candidates don't ever want the press in the room.

What else is there to say? 

EXCEPT...

"Wall Street CEO seeks extremist party to back their candidacy."

Who is going to be on YOUR staff?

Scary.

This is where it really gets bizarre.

According to the "Alaskan Dispatch" the guy got really weird about a political poll.

Besides the fact he was suspended for three days, he used three computers and actually thought it would make a difference.  Now I appreciate him calling himself an 'ass,' but, that really doesn't excuse some really bizarre thinking and behavior.

Joe needs to leave Alaska, alright, but, not for DC.  He needs to find a place in the country where there is actual opportunity for his ability as an attorney rather than living in a 'small pond' and believing three computers are going to change the outcome of a poll for his ambitions. 

Buoy.  The Tea Party certainly got an interesting one, huh?

Now, do I believe he should be elected?  No.  I believe the citizens of Alaska really need to take an honest look at the Democratic candidate for Alaskan US Senate and realize he never took them for granted in any of his race.

Joe Miller's paranoid attempt to overthrow the Alaska Republican Party

Jill Burke | Oct 31, 2010

[...In March 2008, (click here) Miller was placed on administrative leave for 15 days and suspended without pay for three days after getting caught using co-workers' computers in an effort to influence Republican Party politics. He was also required to undergo mandatory counselling.
Miller has long been a political crony of former Gov. Sarah Palin, and in March 2008 was assisting in her effort to get Randy Ruedrich booted as the Alaska Republican Party's chairman -- a political takeover that ultimately failed.
Palin and Ruedrich had been at odds before, famously in 2003 when Palin, then an Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission commissioner, discovered that Ruedrich, also a commission member while state GOP chair, was conducting Republican business out of his state office. She exposed Ruedrich's ethical lapses -- forcing him to resign and resulting in a $12,000 state ethics fine -- and then used her reputation as a corruption fighter to bootstrap her way into the governor's office....]


...Miller's time as a part-time borough attorney (click title to entry - thank you) allude to some of the Gulf War veteran's fears, including his belief that someone might hack into the borough's computer system.
It was around this same time -- March 2008 -- that Miller was caught using three of his co-workers' computers to pad a political poll on his personal website. After the incident, Miller, who at first lied about the computer usage, was placed on leave for about two weeks, followed by a three-day suspension without pay and six months probation.
For co-workers who had just days earlier heard Miller going on about personal threats and computer schemes, the timing of Miller's misuse of their computers was unsettling, spawning one more twist in a situation that seemed to grow stranger by the day....

Sharon Angle is a Tea Party candidate. Why? Because she has no clue either !

Sharron Angle revises history, denies saying what she actually said (click title to entry - thank you)

----Karl asked Angle: “When you say if things don’t turn out the right way in this election, people may seek Second Amendment remedies. What did you mean by that?”


Angle replied, “No, I don’t think that was exactly the way I said it.”...

----On domestic enemies, she told Karl she was speaking of enemies “of the free market system.”

Oh, a plutocrat.

She is KNOWN to have the most bizarre voting record of any Nevada legislator in history.  She never votes with the majority.  Her constituency is served by EVERYONE ELSE'S service in government, NOT her's.

THAT is what voting in the minority provides.  NOTHING. 

Max Pappus, another profiteer, extremist and fear monger wants to end the federal program, "Market Access Program."

He claims it is a federal program that costs $1 billion US that subsidies foreign countries.

The Market Access Program (MAP), (click title to entry - thank you) formerly the Market Promotion Program, uses funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to help U.S. producers, exporters, private companies, and other trade organizations finance promotional activities for U.S. agricultural products. The MAP encourages the development, maintenance, and expansion of commercial export markets for agricultural commodities. Activities financed include consumer promotions, market research, technical assistance, and trade servicing.

Now, I don't know what Mr. Pappas understands about the 'idea' that the USA feeds the world, but, it comes darn close.  I also don't understand what Mr. Pappas understands about marketing, but, he needs to speak to the California Governor, Ahnold Schwarzenegger about his trip to Japan and Asia to promote the sale of California Produce. 

IT DOESN'T SELL ITSELF by pure reputation alone.  USA agricultural commodities have to be marketed just like any other product and believe me the farmer isn't do that.  The farmer takes their commodities to a market and 'gets a check.'  What happens from there is up to the 'commodity handlers' to decide. 

I don't believe I have to say this, but, California is about the sixth largest economy IN THE WORLD.  I think it is important there is a program within the INFRASTRUCTURE somewhere that actually takes that seriously.

Simple solutions for simple people. Profiteers, extremists and fear mongers.

Fundraiser at the Emerald Grand Hotel with Karl Denninger December 2009  (click here)

Mr. Denninger of the Tea Party states he wants to cut a SSI by 50% simply because we don't have enough money to pay the rates we are now and cutting it to zero would be stealing.

Mr. Denninger, along with most of the extremist views of the Tea Party Republicans, have not taken into account what would occur to the USA economy and the 'aged populous' in the USA, including the very aged in nursing homes if SSI were cut by 50%.

People plan their retirements and include those monies in that planning.  Beside trashing every retirement dream in the USA, it would cut 50% of circulating monies out of the 'economy of the aged' in the USA.  YES, SSI is part of the economy of the USA.  Yet, these folks believe by simply cutting the amounts people receive it will be all okay.

I wonder.  Do they believe in the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause, too?

He believes SSI is a subsidy to citizens and that any subsidy is socialism. 

Really?

Has he looked into the subsides paid to the petroleum industry?